Animal Industries Resource Centre

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Advanced Small Animal Nursing

Specialise your skills with this course, seen as a leader in the field of advanced veterinary nurse training

Course Overview

Are you passionate about providing the best patient care? Do you want to advance your knowledge and understanding of nursing procedures? Then this is the course for you! The Advanced Small Animal Nursing Course focuses on the technical side of veterinary nursing, what we do, why it is done and how to advance our skills and abilities. Areas covered include emergency, surgical and medical procedures through to patient advocacy and nurse consultations. This course will provide the basis to fulfill your passion to learn and introduce advanced patient nursing skills within the workplace.

AIRC trained vet nurses who are advertising for positions on the internet, meeting each other at conferences and participating in committees proudly volunteer that they received their training and qualification from AIRC. I think that says it all!

Dawn Douglas-Bill, Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing Graduate

Course Delivery Information

Advanced Small Animal Nursing is conducted as part-time correspondence based study. All students will be given a study timetable upon enrolment which outlines their units of study, due dates and specific requirements for assessment. Upon completion of all course requirements, students will be awarded a Certificate of Completion and an Academic Transcript which documents their individual outcomes. Each student will be assigned to a Training Coordinator, who will be available for one on one student support. Your training coordinator will check in with you on a monthly basis, however will be available via email or phone should you ever need help with your course. Learn more about the the AIRC team.

Units of Study

This unit covers both the process of performing a general initial patient examination and history collation prior to a veterinary consultation and the initial assessment of an emergency/trauma patient. It details the aims and objectives of triage and commonly used triage categories.

Elements of Competency:

Source and Record Patient history

Perform and Document Detailed Patient Physical Examination

Perform and document Emergency Patient Evaluation

Knowledge, understanding and ability to perform Triage

ASANOO2 – Coordinate and Perform Medical Procedures

This unit covers commonly performed medical procedures within the veterinary workplace; including fluid therapy, urinary catheter placement and care, enteral nutrition and care of the patient following a medical procedure.

This unit covers the use of diagnostic pathology procedures to assist in the diagnosis of patient disease, including haematology and biochemistry diagnostic tests and their relation to the pathophysiology of certain diseases.